Campbell, Joseph 1904-1987

The hero with a thousand faces by Joseph Campbell ( Book )
121 editions published between 1949 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 6,055 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this book, Joseph Campbell presents the composite hero. Apollo, the Frog King of the fairy tale, Wotan, the Buddha, and numerous other protagonists of folklore and religion, enact simultaneously the various phases of their common story. The psychological view is then compared with the words of such spiritual leaders as Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Lao-tse, and the 'Old Men' of Australian tribes. From behind a thousand faces the single hero emerges, archetype of all myth

The masks of God by Joseph Campbell ( Book )
154 editions published between 1959 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 5,278 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Studies the development of man's philosophical views of supreme beings in primitive, Eastern, and Western culture

Myths to live by by Joseph Campbell ( Book )
27 editions published between 1972 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,497 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes material on "the buffalo-gods, Quetzalcoatls, Buddhas, fairy queens and other such figures."

Myths and symbols in Indian art and civilization by Heinrich Robert Zimmer ( Book )
75 editions published between 1946 and 2008 in 7 languages and held by 2,294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recognizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements

The mythic image by Joseph Campbell ( Book )
21 editions published between 1974 and 1996 in English and held by 2,288 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents approximately 450 illustrations of mythic art from Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, European, and Olmec cultures as a basis for an exploration into the relation of dreams to myth

The portable Jung by C. G Jung ( )
25 editions published between 1971 and 1988 in English and held by 2,285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents a compilation of writings by the Swiss psychoanalyst

Historical atlas of world mythology by Joseph Campbell ( Book )
30 editions published between 1983 and 1989 in English and held by 2,254 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
From Back Cover: Joseph Cambell's multivolume Historical Atals of World Mythology, his magnum opus, marks the culmination of his brilliant career as scholar, writer, teacher, and one of the foremost interreters of our sacred traditions. Campbell describe his work as an attempt to tell humankind's "One Great Story"-our saga of spiritual awakening and the subsequent development of the many different mythological perspectives that have shaped us throughtout time. His central theme is that our seemingly disparate spiritual traditions are neither discrete nor unique, but rather each is simply an "ethnic manifestation" of one or another of those "elemental ideals" that have forever transfixed the human psyche

Joseph Campbell and the power of myth by Joseph Campbell ( Visual )
20 editions published between 1988 and 2005 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 2,219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss the themes and roots of human myth which is seen as man's attempt to relate himself to the universe. Starting with various topics Campbell shows both how man creates his universe and is controlled by the myth he has created

Transformations of myth through time by Joseph Campbell ( Book )
18 editions published between 1989 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 1,782 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of thirteen lectures, all given near the end of Joseph Campbell's life, that examine the great sweep of mythological development around the world and across the ages

The inner reaches of outer space : metaphor as myth and as religion by Joseph Campbell ( Book )
24 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Joseph Campbell's last book explores the space age. Campbell posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually at work within human beings as well and that a new mythology is implicit in this realization. He examines the new mythology and other questions in these essays which he described as "a broadly shared spiritual adventure."--From publisher description